ISBN-10: 0495095044

ISBN-13: 9780495095040

Edition: 5th 2008 (Revised)

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The most comprehensive text in its field, this anthology includes 70 articles in 10 areas of philosophy of religion: Traditional Arguments for the Existence of God; The Argument from Religious Experience; The Problem of Evil; The Attributes of God; Miracles, Death and Immortality; Faith and Reason; Science, Religion, and Evolution; Religious Pluralism; and Religion and Ethics. The articles are arranged in a coherent framework, with the presentation of each area progressing from the classical to the contemporary and treated in a dialectic (pro and con) fashion that exposes students to both sides of each issue.

Louis P. Pojman (1935-2005) was Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at the United States Military Academy and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary/Columbia University. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Copenhagen and a Rockefeller Fellow at Hamburg University. He received his D.Phil. in Philosophy from Oxford University in 1997.His first position was at the University of Notre Dame, after which he taught at the University of Texas at Dallas. Later, at the University of Mississippi, he served for three years as Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. In 1995, he became Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He most recently was Visiting Professor at Brigham Young University in Utah and Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Oxford University. Pojman won several research and teaching awards, including the Burlington Northern Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship (1988) and the Outstanding Scholar/Teacher in the Humanities at the University of Mississippi (1994). He wrote in the areas of philosophy of religion, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy and authored or edited more than 30 books and 100 articles. Pojman passed away in 2005.

Preface

Introduction

Traditional Arguments for the Existence of God

The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God

The Ontological Argument

A Critique of the Ontological Argument

The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God

The Five Ways

The Argument from Contingency

A Critique of the Cosmological Argument

An Examination of the Cosmological Argument

The Kalam Cosmological Argument

A Critique of the Kalam Cosmological Argument

The Teleological Argument for the Existence of God

The Watch and the Watchmaker

A Critique of the Design Argument

The Argument from Design

A Scientific Argument for the Existence of God

The Argument from Religious Experience

Selections of Mystical Experiences

Mysticism

The Future of an Illusion

Broad The Argument from Religious Experience

A Critique of the Argument from Religious Experience

Religious Experience and Religious Belief

The Problem Of Evil

The Argument from Evil

Theodicy: A Defense of Theism

Rebellion

Evil and Soul-Making

A Critique of Hick''s Theodicy

Evil and Omnipotence

The Free Will Defense

The Inductive Argument from Evil Against the Existence of God

Evolution and the Problem of Evil

The Attributes of God

Time and Eternity

Temporal Eternity

The God Beyond Time

God''s Omniscience and Human Freedom

Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will

God''s Foreknowledge and Human Free Will Are Incompatible

God''s Foreknowledge and Human Free Will Are Compatible

God''s Omnipotence

Is God''s Power Limited? George Mavrodes: Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence

The Logic of Omnipotence

Miracles

Against Miracles

Of ''Of Miracles.''

Miracles and Testimony

Evidence for the Resurrection

Hyperspace and Christianity

Death and Immortality

Plato: Immortality of the Soul

The Finality of Death

Immortality and Resurrection

Personal Identity and Life After Death

A Hindu Theory of Life, Death, and Reincarnation

Faith And Reason

Pragmatic Justification of Religious Belief

The Wager

The Ethics of Belief

The Will to Believe

Rationality and Justified Religious Belief

Rational Theistic Belief Without Proof

Religious Belief Without Evidence

A Critique of Plantinga''s Religious Epistemology

Faith, Hope, and Doubt

Science, Religion, and Evolution

The Relationship Between Science and Religion

Science Versus Religion

Non-Overlapping Magesteria

Faith and Science

Evolution, Naturalism, and Intelligent Design

Signs of Intelligence: A Primer on the Detection of Intelligent Design

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